For what it's worth our equivalent of the IRS, South African Revenue Services,
makes use of PDF forms for filing tax returns and other official tax business.
For all I know they're using iText to extract the info, there's a drive to use
free or open source software in govt departments so this is possible.
Or maybe that was a stunt to get the Microsoft discounts that followed in hot
pursuit of the announcements, hehe.
Taariq
From: Iliadis Yannis [mailto:ilyan...@gmail.com]
Sent: 14 April 2009 12:12
To: Post all your questions about iText here
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] (no subject)
I've been reading all these threads about that Pdf's as an official IRS form
(doesn't allow the extraction of information) shouldn't be used or at least
should have the user rights enabled etc or that the IRS should use other
formats to distribute their 1040 form.
Have you ever considered the following possibilities:
1. The IRS is ignorant about the features a PDF has.
2. That there are many people out there that don't have any programming skills
to create an application that would read the info of the 1040 form and thus why
bother with creating something other than just a "View Model". People have
hands so let them write the data.
3. The IRS wants the form to be that way, so that they force you to write it by
hand (an extension to the previous possibility).
Besides the 3 points I mentioned previously, it is to anybodies preference to
use whatever format the choose and like.
If it is xml, pdf, html, word doc etc., it is their choice and thus outside of
any critisism.
As somebody may say "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".
Yannis Iliadis
2009/4/10 Mike Marchywka <marchy...@hotmail.com<mailto:marchy...@hotmail.com>>
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> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:17:28 +0200
> From: i...@1t3xt.info<mailto:i...@1t3xt.info>
> To:
> itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] (no subject)
>
> BB Holt wrote:
>>
>> I ultimately need to convert PDF to multi page TIF format. I know that
>> iText doesn't support direct conversion of PDF to TIFF, but is it
>> possible to Export PDF to Bitmap format, then convert the BMP file to
>> TIF? Also, do you have any C# examples of how to export PDF to Bitmap
>> format. Thank you for your help!
>
> iText doesn't "render" PDF, not to TIFF, not to bitmap.
> You need something like PDF Renderer (SUN; GPL) or JPEDAL (IDR
> Solutions; GPL).
I did a quick google search for this, apparently the source code is
83megs???
https://pdf-renderer.dev.java.net/
[ again, I'm just trying to get the numbers out of an IRS 1040 pdf file,
which I guess could have been easy has the IRS enabled user rights
or granted any other rights that should have been enabled by default for
me to use the information I typed into what is otherwise an information black
hole ]
I'm going to start using this as a "disclaimer" in my sigfile, written while
waiting
for the download, similar to the legal mumbo
jumbo you often read about "intended recipient" etc etc:
"Note to anyone preparing PDF files for information providing sites: if
you want to provide a pdf file for appearances, carefully consider annotation
or more "primitive" (flexible and simple ) formats in which to make the
information ( which may be more naturally represented as text or images)
available. Where primary sources can be cited, please include links in
appropriate
places and enable and make sure the default settings for authoring tools don't
'protect' ( LOL jumble ) information you wished to make available.
Computers can be used to actually AUTOMATE data processing but
A VIEW IS NOT A MODEL!"
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